Strength Through Failure with Fabio:
Playlist
from July 19, 2012

The Failure of Noise
The Failure of Sound
The Failure of Rock
The Failure of the Avant Garde
The Failure of the Space Age
The Failure of Jazz
The Failure of Psychedelia
The Failure of Krautrock
The Failure of Electronic
The Failure of Pop
The Failure of Free-form
The Failure of the 20th Century

Thu. 7/19/12 3:37pm
Jean Dubuffet:
For a very long time I was too humble [...] and lacking in confidence and composure; and I suffered cruelly because of this, appearing in my own eyes to be nothing more than the most abject dog turd. It was only at a late stage – when in the end I had resigned myself to living like a dog turd without shame or regret and making the best of the situation – that it dawned on me that everyone else was also a dog turd.

Thu. 7/19/12 3:39pm
Honey Water:
@Jean: I realized quite a while ago that everyone else is also a dog turd. But too many of those folks also aren't required to live like a dog turd.

Thu. 7/19/12 3:41pm
cah-ray-zay ed-dee:
It's ok for turds, just don't step in them, or should you? I forget.

Thu. 7/19/12 3:44pm
northguineahills:
Ah, this is the one Mirmaroglu LP I have.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:12pm
dc pat:
I've had fucking amazing strawberry rhubarb pie but ultimately I don't get rhubarb. I understand it's a perennial so it's got that going for it but what else can you do with it?

Thu. 7/19/12 4:12pm
Cecile:
andrew, ITA. I just found that on the internets because I had frozen peaches and no berries. I think the next one is going to be strawberry/peach/rhubarb.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:12pm
Honey Water:
I found I had so much more time available after I quit cigs in '97. A real time consumer that one doesn't suspect.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:13pm
Marmalade Kitty:
Hellooo!

Thu. 7/19/12 4:14pm
dc pat:
hey what the? Am I banned? I was just trying to be funny. You can't ban me. DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??

Thu. 7/19/12 4:14pm
Mary Wing:
Fabio, William Berger's show is on TONIGHT at midnight, not tomorrow!

Thu. 7/19/12 4:14pm
Honey Water:
I found I had so much more time available to me when I quit smoking in '97. An unsuspected time consumer those little coffin nails.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:15pm
Honey Water:
Comments not working?

Thu. 7/19/12 4:16pm
Swellsy:
Fabs, I understand if you don't want to play Kitty, many other DJs will, and your musical houseboat is positively preening today--awesome.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:19pm
dc pat:
I don't partake anymore. never really was a smoker. Now BEER, that's a whole other story...

Thu. 7/19/12 4:19pm
Cecile:
you can make chutney with it, a sweet tart kind of sauce for pork, but mostly it's for dessert. It's also quite nasty if you don't cook it.

I think you can make an herbal tea from the roots for gastric distress, but be careful. Don't take it for more than 8 days, and DO NOT DRINK IT IF YOU ARE PREGNANT. (it's an active ingredient in some old school um, inducing labor remedies)

Thu. 7/19/12 4:20pm
dc pat:
speaking of beer, I had 3 fuckin beers last night and I felt like crap this morning. 3! What the hell? Well they were pounders...and 9% alcohol, but still.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:21pm
Carmichael:
I have many vices, but smoking has never been one of them.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:21pm
Cecile:
same here Carm, except for a brief fling with the chiba back in the day.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:22pm
dc pat:
yeah, but I don't usually have any problems with that. I think it was the hops that everybody loads into beer these days.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:23pm
Ken From Hyde Park:
Rhubarb also makes a great jam. Especially with some strawberries mixed in.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:23pm
Cecile:
that could be. Especially if you have problems with ragweed and whatnot.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:24pm
Carmichael:
I recently had two glasses of a honey peach cider that tasted like mead and was 9.5%. Followed by an IPA. I could barely walk to my car. I guess my tolerance has left me in my old age.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:28pm
northguineahills:
I quit smoking tobacco when I was 22. Didn't touch it for four years. Now I average 2-3 cigarettes/month.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:28pm
Folksong Leader:
Everyone:

If I had a hammer I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening
I'd hammer my head open
Because I'm so fucking bored!

Thu. 7/19/12 4:28pm
Cheri Pi:
If I smoke dank it'll send me right to the mental hospital, though I could tolerate it as a younger snack-cake.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:29pm
Honey Water:
@s/bp: OTOH, it took you three times to quit for good! :) I didn't even start until I was almost 30. I had a first serious quit in '90, but stupidly resumed after a bad breakup. Then the '97 quit worked.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:29pm
dc pat:
OK I'M OUTTA HERE!! THANKS FABIO!!!

Thu. 7/19/12 4:29pm
Cecile:
carm, if we're talking about herbal essences, we're on the same page.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:35pm
DCE:
god let's hope not!
anyway I started smoking at 8 when I found a pack of Kool Menthols lying in the street, unattended. Quit by 22.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:36pm
Andrew Waterloo:
On rhubarb I was going to say that it makes a nice snack just dipped in white sugar

Thu. 7/19/12 4:37pm
still b/p:
A former girlfriend smoked some 20 years, quit when she had kids and for about ten years, then was driven back by stress five years ago and still hasn't re-kicked it. It's a turrible hold it gits. The going out to smoke is its own little social circle/scene, too.

Back in the indoor days --
Common late-night scene with roommates in college after medium-to-heavy beer intake: "The $5 bet we made about quitting...that's off for tonight...right...?"

Thu. 7/19/12 4:37pm
Cecile:
oh, hell no. not with that.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:37pm
Honey Water:
@DCE: Ooh, your cig pack story reminds me of the Breaking Bad ep we last saw. Just one to go to finish the 4th season.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:38pm
DCE:
what, the little kids found meth lying around in the streets while riding bikes?

Thu. 7/19/12 4:51pm
Honey Water:
Fabio, recently saw a news bit about an aluminum record added to the national archives.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:52pm
nyoukis:
this tape blows my mind, all hail Jan for the reissue, something i always wanted to do,, check out Bananafish #10 for some of Ross's fiction writing, aswell as reading on the CD, and some sweet eye candy drawings,, talk about multi-faceted assholes....

Thu. 7/19/12 4:55pm
Honey Water:
Hey, Mike East! Just remembered to ask you: Did you ever get email/text from that SSD ECL dingus?

Thu. 7/19/12 4:56pm
Philo Gristle:
@Mike East @3:26: Mike, glad to hear it! Hard to call favorites, love 'em all, but both FAFDM & TGTBTU are a smidgen above the first one in my humble estimation.

Thu. 7/19/12 4:58pm
Honey Water:
(Hunaja, we're coming at Mike from the East and the west. ;)

Thu. 7/19/12 4:59pm
Philo Gristle:
Oh, and curious to note Jean Dubuffet making an appearance... we published a collection of Charles Willeford's stories and poems sometime back and included a piece called "Jean Dubuffet Was Here." I'd never heard of him before, and rarely after.

Thu. 7/19/12 5:06pm
Mike East:
@HW - no SSD email, but I never got around to emailing Nick yesterday.

@PG - I'll agree with that estimation

Thu. 7/19/12 5:07pm
Honey Water:
@Mike: Well, I made an LD call to sign up AND sent an email follow-up. Nada. Zero. Zilch. And not even an explanation note as to why. You're the first I saw from last eve's playlist today to ask.

Thu. 7/19/12 5:25pm
Swellsy:
I want more rhubarb comments. Why do I read this sh*t?

Thu. 7/19/12 5:29pm
Honey Water:
@Mike: Yeah, guess that should be the 7SD/SSD motto. :) OTOH, I absolutely never expected a b'day shout-out on the show -- that was a true shocker! -- and I can only suspect the extraordinary persuasive skills of Philo accomplished that event.

Thu. 7/19/12 5:50pm
Matt from Springfield:
@HW, Mike: Nope, no emails from the 7SD ECL for me either. I called Nick and gave an email, maybe I'll reply back to him to see. Or, maybe this is just another radio stunt gone bad-slash-never intended to go good to begin with! :)

Thu. 7/19/12 5:54pm
Honey Water:
Matt, I wrote Nick this morning and asked if he would simply shoot out a brief explanation of the problem, and still not a word in reply. Weird that. I thought perhaps they scrapped the idea because Andy was adamant about his number not being spread around, but then why not send an email out to let us know that?!

Thu. 7/19/12 5:55pm
Honey Water:
Oh, and HI! btw. :)

Thu. 7/19/12 5:55pm
Honey Water:
Well, wouldn't call this afternoon's aural confluence a tropical storm, but it had many high points. Thanks, Fabio! Hope you'll stick around for some Pidge time, too.